El mundaneum le corbusier biography
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Le Corbusier
1929-1938: The globetrotter of modern architecture
1929-1934
On his return from the USSR, Le Corbusier became a key figure in the modern architecture debate. Orders poured into the studio for the Villa Savoye, the Centrosoyus, the Immeuble Clarté, the Cité de Refuge de l’Armée du Salut… For the first time, Le Corbusier was forced to turn down commissions because he was unable to fulfill them. In 1929, as the Wall Street crash shook world finance, he set sail for South America to discover a new continent. The “man with soles of wind” had to delegate management of the agency to his cousin Pierre Jeanneret, who remained in Paris. His global mobility took him from Algiers to Seville, Moscow to Brussels, London to Milan and Rome to Barcelona. He travelled by boat, plane and even by Zeppelin, making numerous appearances in response to calls, opportunities and requests for expertise.
A globetrotter in spite of himself, he embraced his role as tribune and herald of modern architecture with conviction. Due to the effects of the 1929 crisis on the building industry in many countries, his production dried up, despite the large number of projects submitted to the studio. Although a dozen projects were completed between 1926 and 1929, only the Im
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As a result of the intense correspondence and several meetings between Otlet and his ‘cher ami’ Le Corbusier in 1928, the structure and secular character of Otlet’s diagram of 1927 is evident in Le Corbusier’s design of the Mundaneum of 1928. Le Corbusier’s design of the World Museum as Karel Teige and El Lissitzky remarked, formally resembled the observatory of the palace of Khorsabad. Otlet included a model of the Babylonian temple in his International Museum in Brussels, in which he gave a personal guided tour to Le Corbusier, and Le Corbusier must have known the reference from Banister Fletcher’s A History of Architecture (1905) and other architectural treatises. [1] Both the World Museum and the tower of Khorsabad combine the spiral with the rectangular floor plan and have a sanctuary in the base. (Ironically, Teige in 1930 praised the terraced roof structure of Adolf Loos’ Grand Hotel Babylon (1923) which lighted up the interior of this pyramidal building of the “Aztec-Mexican type” that consisted not of a sacred mortuary hall but a ballroom and skating rink.) [2] Similarly, for Karel Teige the Mundaneum was “the expression of ideological and metaphysical imagination” and proved that Le Corbusier was unable to break with the historicism of the old cap
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